Week Dec 22-8: review

Figure out how to use this log, & rest of the site. Write a bit more about myself herePartial success: I wrote some things here, but mostly not the stuff I wanted to write

Cooking: I have a kitchen to myself all week, I should use itTotal success

Work: finish the herald code; do a good chunk of the Mongin translationFailure; maybe I was too busy cooking and socialising to keep up with the work :(I'm also getting back into the bad habit of letting things pile up as nearly-complete.

Make it through xmas eve/day without getting maudlinSuccess; it's hard to be gloomy in a labyrinth

Make the necessary xmas phone-calls, emails to family & friends (too late for cards now)I did a little; probably should have done more

Figure out what to do with mika/tom/george/kelly, incl. where to go for silvester.Failure; they're in Berlin, but it's pretty hard figuring out what they're up to

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/ : go? (but expensive - maybe I can afford one day?). In any case, turn up to cbase etc. to meet peopleDidn't go, but have been spending time with participants, and watching a few sessions online. I think this is the right balance.

mention it to people at CCCPartial success; did everything except 3 & 4. Should have spent the time working instead, though :(

Email to find out which interesting properties are still available (but do we really want this?)Didn't do this

Write a patch for the urllib2 bug...or this

Finish the exporting force site...or this

Things I should always be doing:

Find some excuse to get out of the house each dayFailure. Spent several days mainly at home - not all of them unpleasantly, but I need to work on this more

Practice/study German (books! radio! grammar!)Partial success. Lots of reading in German, and listening to the radio, and a bit of grammar. But I have mostly been talking English; disadvantage of meeting foreign visitors, and German-speaking housemates being away

Keep moods under controlNear-total success (unexpectedly)

Carry on writingSuccess (mostly just little posts around the internet, but it's more than I get round to most days

Overall: I'm pretty happy with much of this, esp. the cooking. Let the work slip a little, but that's OK over Christmas. Also, none of it contributes much to the project; I'm a little unsure what I can helpfully do for the project at the moment.